“Sometimes I think that everything I see does not exist. Because everything I see is what I saw, and everything I saw does not exist.”

— Antonio Porchia

A veces creo que no existe todo lo que veo. Porque todo lo que veo es todo lo que vi. Y todo lo que vi no existe.
Voces (1943)

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Italian Argentinian poet 1885–1968

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“Sometimes I think that everything I see does not exist. Because everything I see is what I saw, and everything I saw does not exist.”

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